We are also excited to announce that we will be holding a travel hockey open house on Monday, July 11 at the University of Illinois Ice Arena. This will be an opportunity for you as parents to meet our coaches and for your players as to experience a CUYHA travel practice. Full hockey gear is required to participate.

It also gives us a chance to gauge interest in travel hockey for the fall so that we can make preparations with our coaches and our ice time.

We will have more information about our Mite Travel program soon, and if there are enough players at any level to offer a second travel team, coaches for these teams will be announced near the time of tryouts. Please stay tuned for more details related to the Fall 2016 Tryouts.

Unfortunately, I'm writing today with bad news. We currently have 8 skaters and two goaltenders registered, and it is almost a certainty at this point that we will not reach our minimum number of skaters of 14. While this is certainly disappointing, it does not discourage me from believing that we will have the numbers to not only field a Midget team this fall, but that we will have a competitive one.

There will be ice time opportunities available for Midget skaters here in Champaign starting in May through Illini Hockey, and I plan to spend time the remainder of this spring and summer looking for potential Midget players to help our organization.

Thank you for registering your skater with us this spring, and I will keep everyone posted on the status of our Midget program for the fall. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me anytime.

CUYHA is pleased to announce that Nick Fabbrini has accepted the
position of Head Midget / HS coach for the 2016-2017 season. Coach
Fabbrini brings nearly 10 years of coaching experience which includes
spending the last four years as bench boss of the Fighting Illini men's
hockey team. Welcome Coach Fabbrini!

In light of the registration numbers at tryouts and the interest expressed to us by multiple families, the CUYHA board has decided to commit to offering a 12U house league for the 2014-2015 season. We will offer this program even if we do not reach the 25 skater minimum we had previously required. We hope this helps some families in their decision making process.